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A Plan to Modernize House Painting

Dae S. Kim, PhD

KIMAT LAB

1178 Walnut Street

Newton, MA 02461

thekimatlab@outlook.com

617-965-5599

October 1, 2016

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After reducing the air pollution from 1967 Chevy by 92% with the invention and development of Synchro-Thermal Reactor System (Ref. SAE 700147, USP-3513929, -3641767, and -3672160) which provided an indisputable technical basis for the Clean Air Act Amendment of 1970 and led to the total removal of lead from gasoline, I decided to clean up air pollution from VOC and water pollution from washing tools/applicators and eventual disposal of the left-over paints. Architectural paint was and still is the second worst polluting consumer product, next to auto.

As a member of New Project (Venture) Development Group at Esso Research and Engineering Co., I formulated basic outline of Eco-Painting System, which modernizes architectural paint from production, (packaging, distribution, application), to disposal without waste or pollution. The group showed no interest because of its relatively tiny size. During the following ten years, as an independent inventor, many component technologies (see Appendix) were developed and patented successfully but the effort failed commercially. First zero VOC latex paints were made, tinted and packaged in a tamper-proof re-sealable bottle or flexible pouch, dispensed directly on to the surface where you want and spread evenly with new kinds of applicators without drips nor wastes. But these improvements were not enough to bring about a change. Additionally, the strong resistance from the paint industry convinced me to stop the project.

On my 80^th birthday, I returned to work from twelve-year semi-retirement and invented and developed five new products. Among them, three are directly related to the improvements of Eco-Painting System, particularly in the critical areas of applying and packaging.

They are:

New packaging and dispensing system(KD), where paints come in a pint size flat pouch, which is the most cost-effective means of packaging, preserving, and handling any fluid product. KIMAT Dispenser puts the product on to the only intended area without waste.
See-thru portable spray booth (PB), which prevents overspray and eliminates time, effort and costs of covering near-by objects, waiting for calmer weather or protecting a painter with additional equipment and supplies, such as goggles, mask and smock; and
Portable Elevator (PE), which provides vertical travel while both hands and feet are free to perform the tasks of repairing, cleaning and painting a tall wall efficiently and safely.

Except dipping, power-assisted spraying is the most efficient and cost effective way to paint an object with various shapes, sizes, or surface textures and gives most uniform coverage with a minimal operator training in industrial painting. Recent advances in small electric paint sprayers with better price, control and efficiency made them affordable to small contractors and home owners. In architectural painting, however, except large contractors who paint new or large commercial buildings, spray painting is used rarely because of overspray and clean up.

In new way, one can power spray a large flat surface, such as interior wall, ceiling, floor or exterior wall, by covering with PB and preventing over-spray of the near-by objects, in only a tiny fraction of the time required by conventional ways of painting with a roller and open tray. Paint from a KD pouch to the sprayer eliminates time-consuming and messy clean-up of the spray gun, hose, filter, and supply container(s). Boundaries, edges and curved surfaces are effectively painted with the applicators of Eco-Painting System and paint from KD pouch without covering, taping or scraping off the unwanted paint. The used pouches and applicators are converted into a new kinds of building material. Nothing is discarded.

By combining above three new tools and the available proprietary components of Eco-Painting System, a set of ladders, a pressure washer, tools for a minor repair and proper training, a three-member team can paint the exterior of an average house in a day. The training includes basics of paint, safety, engineering, and business practice for a team leader who is also responsible for the minor repair. Other two power washes and sprays.

With this productivity gain from more than 5-man-week to 3-man-day in house painting, the values of the patents, chance of successful start-up and rate of growth can be maximized by using the new way of painting rather than selling the new products. This also gives us time to improve the design and the production tools for future mass marketing of the products to ordinary house owners and will help us to build a dominant technology in the long run.

As a student of technological innovation with my unique experience of last fifty years, I do not see architectural paint industry changes by itself. Unlike the automotive emission of fifty years ago, nobody cares about polluting paint. Any externally forced change would take a long time as we saw in automotive emission control process. For a change to be, it is up to us.

As one way to implement this change, we recruit and train three or four engineering student team leaders and their friends, from near-by engineering schools and help them earn enough money in three month of summer vacation for their education for a year. We pick the more suitable ones for our other combustion and auto related projects, such as EHS, EAC, CBS or the ENGINE, and help the others to start their own team(s). This approach not only solves their immediate funding for education but also gives a training to be future business owner. Each year the number of team triples or quadruples, exponentially. KIMAT has sufficient resources for the initial phase except workers. We need help of Olin, Wentworth, B.U. or Northeastern, where I spoke on technical innovation representing SAE (Society of Automotive Engineering, International) in past three decades.

The other way is to sell directly to consumers and small contractors. This requires retail outlets under our control and a vertically integrated supplier, or a partnering with an existing chain. The former will take considerable resource but be necessary for the later approach.

Finally, to fund Eco-Painting System and other socially-relevant innovations, KIMAT Dispenser and Flat Pouch Filler is modified to handle hand sanitizer for homes and hospitals, condiment dispensers for very competitive fast food industry and liquid soap for motel/ hotel chains, and schools. This new packaging/dispensing system saves money, resource and environment. We need one institutional consumer who really cares about common good and helps us to start.

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KIMAT Flat Pouch Dispenser

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SEE-THRU SPRAY PAINTING BOOTH

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Hazards and high preventive costs of over-spray are well known and prevented wider uses of spray painting. PB effectively contains and isolates unwanted overspray in a visible space between a transparent sheeting and the area, 3’x4’ being painted, thus eliminates the over-spray. This simple effective device is mounted on PE (a hanging work station) for exterior or on a portable stand for interior to protects a painter and the surrounding.

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This worm gear based winch with center post and a PB provides a safe, efficient work station.

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